[swift-evolution] [Proposal draft] Make Optional Requirements Objective-C-only

[Dave Abrahams]

on Sun Apr 24 2016, Chris Lattner <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>> On Apr 22, 2016, at 8:02 PM, Douglas Gregor via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Apr 22, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Not an expert on Obj-C compatibility in Swift by any means, but this
>>> reads like it's largely a change of nomenclature. To me, though,
>>> `objcoptional` reads exceedingly poorly. Why not emphasize the Obj-C
>>> compatibility angle by requiring the `@objc` attribute to precede each
>>> use of `optional`? (In other words, effectively rename `optional` to
>>> `@objc optional`.)
>> 
>> That is a great idea. 
>
> Doesn’t this have the same problem as the current (Swift 1/2)
> implementation?  People will continue to believe that it is a bug that
> you must specify @objc.

Doesn't that argue for @objc(optional)

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-- 
Dave